Privacy Policy

Last updated: Oct 8, 2023 9:05 AM

We value your privacy very highly. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the thedentalstandard.com Website (the "Website") operated by The Dental Standard, a(n) Limited Liability Company formed in Illinois, United States ("us," "we," "our") as this Privacy Policy contains important information regarding your privacy and how we may use the information we collect about you.

Your access to and use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including, but not limited to: visitors, users, and others, who wish to access or use the Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of the Privacy Policy, then you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.

What information we collect

We collect any and all information that you enter on this Website. We collect the following information about you:

Identifying information - Name

Specific piece of information

Name

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Identifying information - Postal / Shipping address

Specific piece of information

Postal / Shipping address

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Identifying information - Billing address

Specific piece of information

Billing address

How we use this information

Identifying information - Phone number

Specific piece of information

Phone number

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Auditing compliance;
  • Counting ad impressions to unique visitors;
  • Creating new features;
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors;
  • Detecting security incidents;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Processing payments;
  • Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for such activities;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Identifying information - IP address

Specific piece of information

IP address

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors;
  • Detecting security incidents;
  • Resolving disputes.

Identifying information - Email address

Specific piece of information

Email address

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Verifying customer information.

Identifying information - Device identifier

Specific piece of information

Device identifier

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Internet or other electronic activity - Browsing history

Specific piece of information

Browsing history

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Internet or other electronic activity - Search history

Specific piece of information

Search history

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with our website or application

Specific piece of information

Information regarding your interaction with our website or application

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interactions with advertisements

Specific piece of information

Information regarding your interactions with advertisements

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Sensitive personal information - Geolocation information

Specific piece of information

Geolocation information

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Sensitive personal information - Keystroke patterns or rhythms

Specific piece of information

Keystroke patterns or rhythms

How we use this information

  • Analytics;
  • Enforcing our Terms of Service;
  • Marketing and advertising;
  • Participation in surveys and contests;
  • Performing services;
  • Providing customer service;
  • Providing financing;
  • Verifying customer information;
  • Verifying position and quality of ad impressions.

Note that we do not use your personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising, nor for profiling. Please see the "Your Rights" section below for more information about exercising your privacy rights related to profiling and targeted advertising.

With whom we share your personal information

We share the following personal information with the following categories of third parties:

Identifying information - Name

Specific piece of personal information shared

Name

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Identifying information - Postal / Shipping address

Specific piece of personal information shared

Postal / Shipping address

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Identifying information - Billing address

Specific piece of personal information shared

Billing address

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Insurance and lab companies.

Identifying information - Phone number

Specific piece of personal information shared

Phone number

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Content management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Fraud prevention services vendors;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Identifying information - IP address

Specific piece of personal information shared

IP address

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Content management systems;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Identifying information - Email address

Specific piece of personal information shared

Email address

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Identifying information - Device identifier

Specific piece of personal information shared

Device identifier

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Identifying information - Inden

Specific piece of personal information shared

Inden

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Internet or other electronic activity - Browsing history

Specific piece of personal information shared

Browsing history

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Internet or other electronic activity - Search history

Specific piece of personal information shared

Search history

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interaction with our website or application

Specific piece of personal information shared

Information regarding your interaction with our website or application

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Internet or other electronic activity - Information regarding your interactions with advertisements

Specific piece of personal information shared

Information regarding your interactions with advertisements

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Sensitive personal information - Geolocation information

Specific piece of personal information shared

Geolocation information

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Sensitive personal information - Keystroke patterns or rhythms

Specific piece of personal information shared

Keystroke patterns or rhythms

Categories of third parties with whom personal information is/was shared

  • Advertising networks;
  • Customer management systems;
  • Email marketing vendors;
  • Email service providers;
  • Hosting providers;
  • Internet service providers;
  • Parties that need to operate the website;
  • Social networks.

Sale of your information

We do not sell your personal information. Please see the "Your Rights" section below for more information about exercising your privacy rights regarding sales of your personal information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your device by your browser. This Website collects cookies and may use cookies for reasons including, but not limited to:

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies, if you prefer. This setting may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Website.

Children's privacy

This Website is intended for use by a general audience and does not offer services to children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond to that child to inform him or her that they cannot use this Website.

Analytics programs

This Website uses Google Analytics to collect information about you and your behaviors. If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Your Rights

All visitors and users of this Website have the following rights with regard to their personal information:

  1. The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for purposes of targeted advertising;
  2. The right to say no to the sale of your personal information;
  3. The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for the purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you;
  4. The right to access the personal information that we have collected about you;
  5. The right to request that we delete all or some of the information that we have collected on you;
  6. The right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected about you;
  7. The right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights;
  8. The right to request your personal information in a portable and, to the extent feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit that information to another entity.

Exercising your rights

You may exercise the rights specified above by submitting a consumer request to:

Dr Vlad Crutcher
1545 W North Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Your Privacy Choices

We will need to verify your identity prior to effectuating your request. To verify your identity, you will need to provide us with the following information with your request:

You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise your rights on your behalf. You may designate an agent via any of the ways used to submit requests on your behalf. We will request the agent to verify that he or she has the authority to submit requests on your behalf. We will do so by asking the agent to submit the following information:

Please note that we may not be able to process your request if your designated agent and/or you do not provide us with the above information.

We will respond to most consumer requests within 45 days of receipt. However, some requests may take longer. We will notify you in writing if we need more time to respond (up to 90 days total). We have the ability to deny your request(s) if certain exceptions in the law apply. If we deny your request, we will provide you with reasons for such denial.

You have the right to appeal a refusal to take action on a rights request. You may file an appeal to us at the contact information provided above. We will respond to most appeal requests within 45 days of receipt. However, some requests may take longer. We will notify you in writing if we need more time to respond (up to 90 days total). In our response to your appeal, we will inform you of any actions taken or not taken and the reason(s) as to why. Normally, we do not charge a fee to process or respond to consumer requests. However, we may charge a fee for a second or subsequent request within a 12-month period.

Third-party websites

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their Privacy Policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track is a preference you can set on your browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your browser.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the updated Privacy Policy to this website or application.

Questions

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@thedentalstandard.com.